showing you things you thought you knew about in a completely new way… I find Harari’s writing exhilarating. Compared with the subjects he tackles, anything else we might read looks piffling and parochial. Harari thrills his readers because he addresses the biggest possible topics with confidence and brio. Intelligent, lucid and refreshingly unpretentious. Harari has done it again - 21 Lessons is, simply put, a crucial book. Reading this book, I must have interrupted my partner a hundred times to pass on fascinating things I’d just read. There is surely no one alive who is better at explaining our world than Yuval Noah Harari - he is the lecturer we all wish we’d had at university. thanks to him, the world makes better sense to many more of us. I’m predicting that 21 Lessons for the 21st Century will complete a Harari hat-trick of classics… The clarity of Harari's vision is astonishing. has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century' Bill Gates, New York Times The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and disorienting change.Īre we still capable of understanding the world we have created? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today's most urgent issues. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children?

' 21 Lessons is, simply put, a crucial book' Adam Kay In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. The bestselling phenomenon returns with 21 bite-sized lessons to help us understand our troubled times.

21 lessons of the 21st century